Or refuse to buy
A two bedroom apartment in Bergen sentrum
Hard drives. They’ve gone up like 400%
Generally computer hardware I guess. Unless it’s essential any purchases or upgrades are on hold for now.
Cocktails are so expensive these days. I have a very high alcohol tolerance and it’s 10-20$ as bare minimum for <1$ of ingredients. 5 negronis + tip and you’re down at least a 100$. I’m more of a smoker these days but taking people out is such a luxury. If you have 3 friends visiting and buy couple rounds you’re in a triple digit bill already.
A sandwich. A cheesesteak in Norway cost just over $30.
Coffee and TV are the only things beating the last 5 years of inflation.
500g of somewhat decent ground coffee costs 8-9€ in a grocery store.
Assuming you’re from Finland, Hieno Mokka in LIDL costs 5€ a pack and is indistinguishable from Juhla Mokka.
i think coffee was always expensive if you want the good stuff(in the states) the cheap brands are cheap for a reason. i think because coffee requires such a intensive and specific environment to grow. thats why the customers are often well off, and almost no “middle class or poorer buys them”
RAM! 😭
Carne asada. Tacos. Fucking food trucks in Portland want $15 for 3 street tacos. GTFO.
Granola. It’s $5/lb at WinCo!
NA beer. People weren’t buying reg beer so they just figured hey we’ll wreck this market by pricing people out of it too! So I get no alcohol and it’s the same price as regular beer? Piss off.
bulk granola, made in person seems quite expensive, rather than buying the pre-packaged from brand names.
Also in Portland. Food trucks are no longer the cheap street food thing. Haven’t been for years. Now they’re trendy and commercialized like everything else. I hate it
Nothing that I can think of. Anything that I’m not buying because of how expensive it is I already was not buying because how expensive it was to begin with.
Dental care
i think it was always expensive, i shop around for the cheapest yet decent quality dental experience. university dental care, if you can tolerate the wait time, some emergency services are more immediate.
one nears me, upcharges everything comparatively to other dentist like 100-200% more than other dentist around.
Brisket
Fast food
Fast casual food
Applebee’s-tier restaurants
Japanese cars
Used cars, motorcycles, ATVs, boats
Camping
Skiing
Taxi rides
Corn mazes
Pumpkin patches
Escape rooms
Concerts
Bars/Clubs
Retro video games and consoles
Thrift stores
Storage units
Apartments in the bad part of town
There’s no more middle class :( can’t afford a house, can’t afford “affordable” entertainment, can’t afford shit
✅✅✅✅✅ yep!
Pizza. Pizza used to be about $20 delivered. This past weekend we had a large meatlovers delivered…it was $48 before tip.
As a Dutchie, 20$ for pizza already sounds very expensive to me, 48$ is a crime xD over here it costs about 10-15€ which is almost the same in $
US Pizza is 3 times as thick as a normal pizza and 3000 calories.
it is a pizza, you get what you expect from it.
Though in the Netherlands you are probably talking about a personal pizza, whereas if they are in the US, they are probably talking about a larger pizza that would feed at least two people.
Went out the other weekend. Two drinks was $55.
I was in NY and my friend is a real pizza nut and wanted me to try this super trendy pizza, Ceres. We went mid afternoon and avoided the 4 hour line. A 20" pie was $68 before tax.
Glad in back home where I can cry into my $5 Digorno when I need a night off.
I’d cry as well if I was eating Digiorno
Fast Food. Used to be 1€ for a burger now its pretty much the same as regular restaurant but it tastes like paper at best.
Basically any fast food. Within my lifetime fast food went from cheap end of week treat, to being a complete ripoff that’s almost never worth shelling out for…
Which is weird cause the price of actual restaurants hasn’t gone up as much during that time, so it now oftentimes makes more sense to just go to an actual restaurant where you’ll (usually) get better food in better portions
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I remember $0.39 cheeseburgers at McDonalds and $0.79 bean burritos at Taco Bell.
But this was when gas was $0.89/g and we didn’t live under fascism.
You have to use there apps and points and shit to get it cheap, but it can be cheap. They’re basically in the business of wasting poor people’s time and collecting their data these days
Yeah when taco bell is $40 for two of us and going to the sit down Mexican restaurant is $40, I’m going to pick food that gives me leftovers every time.
40$ is on the low end, think 70-100+ $, for people addicted to eating out.
family dinners events can be hundreds or up to a 1000$+
Taco Bell being cost-prohibitive is so wild to me. I remember going there so many times in high school in the 90’s and being able to get a veritable feast for $5.
I remember the taco bell challenge, order 10 dollars of food and try to finish it all. Now you can’t get a meal for that price…
I can still get my bean burritos and a drink for like $8. That being said I haven’t been to one in months
I figure it this way too, but then after I’ve eaten at the sit-down place the bill turns out to be $80.
My wife and I went out this year and the bill was $200 for a sit down Italian in our suburban town. I don’t even like Italian.
We did a tiki lounge more recently in the city and it was $150.
These are nicer ish places but like, that’s a lot.
I stopped most fast food years ago. It’s basically only an option in the rare situation that I need food “fast” and wont be home to eat it, and even then I avoid them more and more.
If I’m going home, I’ll order delivery or take out from a real restaurant. More-better food for same-less money.
That’s not even considering that I meal prep and cook at home even more, but even what little bit I still want to not cook myself… It’s not going to be restaurant prices for worse food.
I get burgers to go from sit down places cause they’re better, full on burgers and not some slice of meat and filler measurable in the millimeters for the same price if not cheaper. I get a mushroom Swiss from IHOP for like $12 plus tip(yes typing culture sucks, but it’s the system we live in and I’m not going to stiff a kid cause I don’t agree with someone they have little control over). And I get legit big onion rings to boot!
Just food in general.
I could conceivably budget for beef, but the price pisses me off so much I’ll go for a pork steak instead.
Theres a perfectly good bbq resturant near me thats typically cheaper than mcdonalds.
